Arcane’s SHORTEST Arc: HUCK (Explained) | 1min Analysis
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It’s the whole story of Piltover/Zaun told in minutes through in a single character. Huck is the first character we meet in the Undercity and we see Vander enforcing business ethics in Huck’s deal. In Act 2, Huck betrays Vi to Silco for shimmer. What was once a poor but healing society that was building itself up through honesty and enabling opportunity became a poro-eat-poro world of backstabbers, shortsightedness, and monsters. But Huck’s story tells a darker story than I realized on first watch. It gets to the heart of what makes addiction such a terrible disease.
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Ok so that's why he couldn't actually tell caitlyn what he was apologizing for
i thought he was saying sorry to what happened at the end of episode 3
@@steve.mxnson_ He said sorry for "everything", so it did also include the past, but also much more imminently, the future. That Shimmer clinic was setup to provide relief for the addicts by Silco. It doesn't hand out full doses, but rather a daily med dose to try and undo the damage caused by rampant abuse of the early crude serum. Perhaps, out of care, but most probably out of pragmaticism, Shimmer is more useful if you can control/limit/mitigate the side effects, and developing a treatment for the addicts would aid Zaun. After the destruction of the lab in EP3, there was massive amounts of Shimmer that was looted from the building as Sevika was out of commission getting an arm replacement and Singed was healing, Silco was busy with young Jinx and filling the void left by Vander. So no one was watching the warehouses. Silco didn't "Flood the streets with Shimmer" When his back was turned the streets came to the shimmer and looted it, then resold it as a novelty. Huck wanted Shimmer, before he took his first dose. He was addicted to "the Idea of being powerful" not the Shimmer.
@@Hawkido Uh, where do they say any of this? What clinic are you talking about?
@@djx7134 The clinic setup so deep in the undercity where only the wretches dwell, where Vi's parents dwelt, and why they fought on the bridge. The only clinic you see in the show being used. The one that serves no other purpose but to care for the wretches down there, as explicitly stated in the show, by one of the characters who willingly ingested shimmer for personal gratification... If it was for the standard people of the undercity, it would be located in the Lanes or the Promenade.
You can see Silco talking during this sequence, but not hear his words... rewatch this scene. More time passes during that brief sequence than you think. You see that in between flashes Silco has removed his jacket and is crouching down by Huck laying unde the rubble, then he gets up in a rage and stomps his head to jelly.
All people can be categorized into two groups:
1. Those who can extrapolate information from an incomplete set of data.
@@Hawkido You did just make a theory as this isn't strictly said, but it's a realistic and believable one.
He definitely wanted to help Vi for real. All the character's mannerisms during those interactions with Cait are super genuine. It's just that, when you're an addict, you'll do anything for your next hit, and that's when he turned her in to Silco.
Yeah, I felt he was being sincere until he caught sight of the shimmer in the medicine. That was the catalyst for his betrayal.
True. He probably really was gonna turn her in from the beginning, but he genuinely wanted to help her. It can also be interpreted as, since he knows how skilled Vi is, she'd be able to defend herself and escape successfully. Like the vid said, he was a businessman, and while being driven by his addiction, he still felt indebted to Vander for his help in the first arc and wanted to help his daughter.
@@Frosty89 This exactly, Huck planned to play both sides off each other... hoping for the outcome he wanted, which was a free dose, and for Vi to get away. I think Huck did show some spine at the very end. I think he taunted Silco and Silco stomped him to death for his betrayal. Silco knew Vi was Injured, and when he finds out Huck was the one that got her the shimmermeds from the clinic, Silco ended Huck.
Anyone that doesn’t realize that Huck is genuine just tells me there’s something wrong with their empathy.
Agree
To me I took this as he did initially try to help her, but then when Silco shows up promising shimmer to anyone with information he can't help himself.
same here
Yes. Or after he sees the shimmer inside the potion, the addiction speaks louder and he goes after Silco
poor man is just overcome by addiction.
Yeah, I don't think he planned it. Addicts are weak, not evil.
@@Fionalah Bruh, nah. You clearly know nothing about addiction if you think addicts are weak. At least the living ones.
My dumbass just assumed that Silco just appeared and knew where they were for no reason, but it makes sense that Huck sold them out
We see Silco give him Shimmer
@@Hjernespreng I know that but before that, like how silco knew Vi and Cait were there
@@Hjernespreng I thought he was just feeding the rampant use of shimmer, but no, he sold them out!
me too until I saw this video hahaa
Same. I thought he probably just had eyes everywhere and had been tracking them for a while before he had them cornered.
the fact that i completely missed this character is shameful and i’m going to watch arcane again
We know you were looking for a reason to watch it again ;)
Good! And don't you come out until you've watched EVERY episode!
I noticed it was him but I didn't think about it too much at the time because I was just hooked to keep going and see what was going to happen next x)
I’ve now watched it twice. I still had no clue it was the guy from Act 1! Now I know huh very cool 😎
I seen him, I just didn’t clue into the fact that he told silco where Vi was
I don't actually see it like that.
I think, at first, he really did want to help out Vi.
But then he saw Shimmer and started to crave for it.
I think he tried to resist his craving at first, tried to tell himself he shouldn't betray Vander's kid [and Vander himself, in a way.]
But, well...
... he failed.
Simple as that.
I think it is a combination of your and schnee's theory. Huck did help Vi because he truly wanted to help her and(!) use her to get the shimmer he is craving. I think he helped her getting better in hopes that she would be able to flee in time (as the prodigy she was always said to be) later on. Because if he really just wanted to keep her alive in order to set her up he would be among the people to attack her but he went directly away after he got his potion of shimmer (probably also out of shame). Plus, Silco didn't say he wanted them alive - he would have been very content when sb. already killed them and delivered just the corpses. So I think the theory of keeping Vi alive just to get shimmer is not valid in at this point. I really think he let her heal up before betraying her so he could get his shimmer while she is hopefully (or at least has a chance to) getting away. That way he get's his shimmer and doesn't have to go in full betrayal mode in his opinion (getting shimmer and giving her location away = betrayal of Vi BUT if Vi ends up dead on top of it, this means he would have betrayed Vander as well and he said himself that he owns him his life and more).
I think his character arc is supposed to show that a lot of the Undercity people still have some good values and intentions but are tempted and forced by the conditions to betrayal even though they actually don't want to do this. And they try to minimize the damage but nevertheless can never completely avoid it. And trust, like it was handled with Vander, is not present anymore- everybody can betray you for a certain price/craving. The fact that he doesn't want Vi to end up dead is a memento/tribute to the old days when Vander was protecting the Undercity. Connections are also not the same they were before - the Undercity changed considerably since Vi went to prison and Silco took over.
Yeah for sure he really wanted to help her at first. This is the life of an addict. He started craving shimmer and that's when he cracked.
A junkie can have good intentions, but the craving for the next dose is always stronger.
In fact I would argue he couldn't plan to sell out Vi later because when if comes to getting a fix, junkies don't plan long-term, they need it now. So he had to start with good intentions.
He is a good metaphor for the undercity though. Even if he means to do good, he ends up ruining things for immediate profit.
I must have missed the part but how does schnee know huck knew he was about to see Silco right after? Was it coincidence that lead to impulse decision or did he go out of his way to get Silco attention to potentially get a shimmer reward for pointing out vi.
@@OGRENZO94 when Caitlyn takes the potion he has a reflection of shimmer and a craving look on his face- therefore we can conclude that he is an addictive.
Huck refuses to go back to Vi with Catilyn (because he needs to tell Silco's goons about it in order to get shimmer who are swarming everywhere because they search for her so it is easy for him to find them). He also apologized for it in advance. And the confirmation of that is given by his look when he takes shimmer out of Silco's hand. He has a guilty and apologetic look on his face because of this betrayal and dissapears after that because he doesn't want to see the outcome of his betrayal.
poor huck :( caught in the tides, no spine to fight for himself. tbh he looks like a disgraced piltovian who was outcast to zaun, he doesn't have any grit or oompf to him. maybe he was a banker, or a mailman, then they replaced him with robots. RIP.
That's super extra sad now thanks
We all know that mailmen are not to be messed with, courier six taught us that lesson....
I honestly don't think so. I think he wanted to help her because he still cares enough and respects Vander but finally can't overcome his addiction. I don't think the only purpose of helping Vi was sell her alive from the beginning.
Could be both
@@Elrightio Agreed. I think he wanted to help Vi out of guilt for what he knew he was about to do.
Yup. Schnee isn’t perfect so people shouldn’t treat him like he’s perfect. He makes a lot of mistakes and assumptions
@@ximienlundquist8487 I think shnee is overanalyzing it a little bit, but he keeps delivering sensible conclusions that any viewer could arrive to. I don't think that Arcane writers somehow planned all things that shnee is talking about, but they managed to create such a nuanced story, where it seems like they did. I don't think the meaning of great art is intrinsicaly defined by the artist, rather subjectively different for everyone who's consuming the art. And Arcane is great art.
@@otakarbeinhauer it’s actually hilarious how you think professional writers are somehow less perfect than Schnee lmfao. Talk about being a fan haha. I watch a lot of his videos and he makes a lot of leaps of logic while missing obvious character development points.
I feel like Huck's story is meant to be very intuitive to the viewers. The feelings it evokes are already very telling and are the point.
Huck is somebody who could afford to thrive under Vander, a not so hardcore middle-man who did his business fairly, because the community had his back. He is meek, but he is earning, he has success.
And we see that under Silco he had no chance to succeed. Nation of Zaun chewed him up and infected him with its hideousness.
He doesn't betray Vi because that's his big plan. But because his addiction compells him to. He might have very well been sincere in saving Vi. But it doesn't matter. Because Shimmer dictates the rules now.
It's hard not to feel absolute sympathy for the man. Because addiction really is just that strong. It's like a form of madness, one that robs you of all dignity and all sense of self. It's something that you may never be able to get control of without serious help, and if you don't have a support network to provide that help, and especially if you're in an environment that's working against you and feeding into your weaknesses, then it may be impossible to overcome.
When he betrays Vi, it doesn't leave you with a feeling of betrayal or anger. Just pity. He looks so ashamed in that moment; but the need for that next hit overcomes all other forms of reason or love or loyalty. It's just the shimmer.
Omg when I saw lil purple glasses man at first I couldn’t figure out where I’d seen him before, yet there all this important meaning djndkdmdmdm
Same!! I thought he was Mylo at first but nothing about that added up so I was completely lost for who he could be lmao
As someone who was relapsing while watching this show. This scene was one of the hardest to watch. Because I was about to do something similar. But I'm out of rehab now. 10 days sober!
Nice! Keep it going man, you got this.
👍🏾
Congrats!
Let your past weakness re-forge you into something stronger.
remember that even if it happens again, each time is a lesson, and more people succed eventually if you can learn from your past
It makes me sad when I mention Huck and my friends are like "who?" Great little character.
To be fair, I probably wouldn't have remembered him by name, but as soon as you explained who you were talking about, I'd be like "oh yeah!"
i'm rewatching Arcane again and this man flew over my head first time but i guess is that he was a Shimmer addict who tried to go cold turkey but gave into his cravings
Arcane is THAT show. The one you can keep rewatching and it keeps right on giving
I rewatched it 10 times
Nah, i have to disagree with you schnee. He was really honest about helping her. He was sorry about the death of Vander and not being able to actually be there because of his own shame. The adiction thing comes when Silco asks for information. He is not "a savvy businessman", he is just crafty and nervous. That fear is parrt of his character flaws, we see him lose his cool when his only strengh is challenged in the first episode, and then the consequences of his fear pushing him to become "stronger", now that there is no Vander to protect him. No kniving, no planning, just a destroyed shell of a man that let his fears and insecurities lead him down the path of addiction and self isolation
Yeah, I agree, he's oversimplifying, feels like a bad take to me.
I interpreted it in a completely different way when I saw the scene of this betrayal for the first time. For me this guy helped Cait selflessly because he wasn't working with Silco at the time. When we see his eyes shining for the Cait medicine we only see a drug addict who reacts like this to every sight of a shimmer. Silco could go down to the gully and ask all the inhabitants if anyone had seen the two women, including Vi, and would give Shimmer for information. This guy, because he was addicted, betrayed everything for his drug.
Doesn’t even matter if the theory here is what the writers intended… the point of “how did the writers put so much depth and real world parallels everywhere in this show?” is so spot on
I don't think your theory is correct, I think he just wanted to help, so that even after his betrayel Vi and Cait have better possibilities to survive. In his conversation with Cait we also learn that he is ashamed of himself and of his motivation to consume shimmer in the first place. He knows what Vander has done for him and he probably helped Vi because of feeling guilty for what he would do next.
I don’t know. Didn’t Silco want Vi dead anyway? I always interpreted this scene as more of his addiction winning over despite his initial desire to want to genuinely help Vi.
I interpreted it as he knew he was going to betray her from the start, so he at least gave her a fighting chance by healing her wounds beforehand. Before the shimmer could cloud his judgement. It would make sense why he wanted to say sorry way before Silco showed up. But I also see this point of view.
Huck was a businessman, He tried to play both sides of the deal and Silco killed him for it. I like to think he finally showed some backbone to Silco, just before Silco stomped him to death. But he could also have died a simpering weakling as he had lived as well.
@@Hawkido did he die? After the Ferris wheel fell we don’t see him anymore, but I don’t remember seeing Silco purposely murder him
something about Huck made me cry so hard soon as I realised who he was. I cried a lot watching arcane but Huck was the most unexpected shocking time, I just sobbed
I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WE SAW HIM EARLIER!! 😧
Ohh I didn't realise he actively betrayed her. I thought he was genuinely helping her and then later was ashamed that he couldn't resist taking the shimmer. Damn.
silco's timing is sus, did he like text him, or page him? lol.
I have seen some people say that The Undercity is better off after the time skip than it was before (under Vander). All you need to do is look at Huck and see how big a lie that is. Why do people ignore that when it's right in there? sm
because some people are more feeling driven than logic driven.
i have plenty of ppl in my county that miss communism, and forget there was a famine, no tv or cinemas, no reproductive agency and ppl that were baren or single payed extra taxes, you couldn't leave the country or express any critical or negative thoughts regarding authority.
I've even heard women tell me there was less rape then, as if that would have ever made the news. nothing bad ever happed because they all lived in a "utopia" but it was all fake so many miss the comforting lies and attack any victims, especially political prisoners that tell them it wasn't true and that they suffered.
When Caitlyn hugged him after he helped her despite the shape he was in, was the moment I knew she was the one 😇
The fact that I saw him help Cait to heal Vi and didn't realize that it was Huck and that I had seen him before, confirms something to me: Addictions change you, they change your priorities and your way of acting and rationalizing.
Even though you may be aware of how destructive your addiction is to others and to yourself and you feel guilty for it, but there's either nothing you can do about it because the pull is too strong, or you don't care/stopped caring and the next hit will make it all go away.
I work with a lot of people who live with addictions to some hard stuff (drugs of any kind, alcohol, you name it) and beneath it all, most of them are good, decent people. Some used to be lucrative businesspeople, doctors/lawyers, and the like, before they lost everything and gave up. I'm not saying everyone with an addiction is like this, just that it's a common trait with the ones I interact with.
Considering there are other shimmer addicts there with him receiving shimmer from Silco my guess would be that Silco came there, asked for information, and because the rest already were immediately ready to tell him whatever his addiction said he doesn't need to feel guilty for selling them out since it would happen anyway but at least he can get something out of it. His apology could be anything from just feeling sorry for her, himself, the entire Undercity, to him feeling like he betrayed them purely by using shimmer knowing it was from Silco and Silco killed Vander. He is in a small part contributing to the problem and supporting Silco through his addiction.
The realistic depiction of addiction is so haunting.
I didn't even realize that he was The same guy from the first episode.
You forgot about his personal arc.
In episode one we see that ha can provide certain services or items people are willing to pay for, however given his small scrawny build people try to take advantage of him, however Vander had his back.
Now he is alone probably tried to kept doing his usual business but without Vander people ripped him off or robbed him etc., that's why he turned to shimmer, even knowing what it does to people, he: "wanted to know what it was like to make people afraid of you", he did not become an addict just because.
Doesn't matter where you look throughout this show, it's perfection at _every_ turn.
I agree with this analysis, except for the Silco needs Vi alive part (why would you think that? I see no hints in the series). Silco thought Vi was dead since ep. 3 and he has plenty of shimmer, he would have given some to the whistleblower of Vi’s corpse as a token of gratitude anyways.
No, Huck helping Caitlyn and Vi means he still knows how to do good. Although he can probably figure out what Silco would be doing to her, he considers being alive better than being dead (in that regard similar to Marcus in ep. 3).
Huck is representing a generic undercity citizen and in some ways also as the Undercity itself (as you say). Trying to make a living by being busy, diligent and honest, yet being bullied around, so having to rely on assistance (Vander). So he is tempted easily when Silco prosmised with shimmer he can be strong by himself (strength being the primary virtue of the undercity, e.g. Sevika to Vander ‘You look weak’). Yet, instead of becoming strong he became addicted. His appearance in ep. 6 is also an example of Silco’s ‘There’s a monster inside all of us’.
Great, concise video! Keep up the good work
I totally didn't even catch that he betrayed them when I watched! Things make more sense now. I guess I just figured since Silco seems to have a lot of power that he must've been tracking them for a while with his goons or something. This is so much more tragic.
Damn i didnt even realize he turned vi in
I'm quite convinced a lot of people are kind of drawing blood from the stone of Arcane, where there is a lot of high quality stuff, but a lot rushed content that was cut for time, and people are making connections between rushed plotlines as genius subtext instead of, well, rushed and unfinished plot threads.
Arcane is really good. The animation is flawless, the direction is actually fantastic, scene composition and cinematography is all just delicious. But all of these beautiful scenes are not stitched together as tightly as they were made.
Arcane can tell a full story in 3 minutes better than most shows do troughout their whole runtime.
I can't help but not hate him. When he whimpers that he got addicted to shimmer because he just wanted to feel strong, or just not feel so helpless, it really just hit the right notes perfectly.
Isn't it amazing that as we grow up, we get used to 1.5 hr movies with little to no real emotion attached to it?
And then comes this masterpiece.
He wasn't in a state of being calculating. He was super addicted to shimmer and wanted to help but needed his fix.
I just watched this show and your making me realize new things about this show please keep doing these I love them
I still just wish we had a whole show about the first few episodes
OUT OF ALL 27 TIMES IVE WATCHED ARCANE IVE NEVER THOUGHT OF IT LIKE THIS
I saw that scene as huck genuinely want to help, but also can't help betray her too, cause of his addiction.
HOLY FLIP THIS IS GENIUS!!!!!
Not gonna lie, I legit thought this was Desmond from act 1.
@Schnee can you please in the next short talk about the face tattoo on Vi and it’s comparison to the Jinx vs Power conflict and the opposites between them in that sense. Please
When I rewatched Arcane, I recognized Huck, and my I just thought he wanted to repay Vander for helping him. My take was that Huck helped Caitlyn get help for Vi to make her able enough to take what he was going to send her way (selling her out to Silco for Shimmer). That shop owner looks like they have a lot of credibility for effective stuff, so for Huck to direct Caitlyn to someone who can get Vi on her feet the fastest instead of the cheapest place for some Advil, makes me think we wanted to at least give Vi a chance in honor of Vander’s protection in the past.
not enough people know this, but Riot and Fortiche spent 8 years working on Arcane, it's a true passion project to show their love and support to all who have given them the same throughout the years. Definitely wish there was more extras and behind the scenes stuff, I wanna know Fortiche's work flow and their specifics on virtual cinematography/camera work, modeling, texture trio packs (diffuse, specular, and regular are typically a standard and i can see it occasionally), work distribution, etc. I really want to pick their brains a bit.
I just rewatched arcane a few days ago and caught this for the first time. Makes so much sense.
The first time I watched it I thought he was helping Caitlyn save Vi because he was hoping she'd be able to escape, because he knew full well that he was gonna rat her out because he couldn't control his addiction.
Idk, I feel like this is the first assessment I've heard that doesn't fit. His facial expressions and mannerisms are very genuine.
I got the feeling he truly wanted to help Vi, but when he saw Caitlyn receiving her bottle of Shimmer, it brought forward all of his desperate cravings for it. He knows where he can get it, he knows it's wrong, but he can't help himself. Such is the way of addiction.
I don't think he actually wanted to betray or cause her to be caught by Silco, but felt he had no choice when he realized his only way to get Shimmer would be to turn her in. 🤷♀️
Just my two cents.
I didn't know that was the same guy. Guess that really shows addiction completely changes you.
Just wait till *my* stories are media, I'm taking NOTES
The two times I’ve watched it I never realized he betrayed. It never crossed my mind the he had been the reason silco had found them. Even after the moment where he takes the shimmer. I thought that was just him kinda going backwards and showing no matter how much character development he had gotten the scenes before, he still ended up returning to the drug. But yeah, didn’t realize he was betraying. Maybe that’s just on me cause I’m such a “find the good in people” kinda person. Just thought maybe silco had other goons report back or somethin.
I think that would be cool for Huck to appear in s2 as the homeless man that Warwick ( Vander ) killed in his lore after he transformed, I think that would be awsome
Ooh I didn't even recognize him until now. Makes sense.
You must made me realize that it was Huck that Silco gave the Shimmer to. I didn't notice that.
I think he for sure knew that he will betray Vi but at the same time seeing her wounded he wanted to give her a chance at least to face Silco and being able to try to fight him back. I do not think that Silco wouldn't have been satisfied with her corpse
So hey. You might remember me talking to you about the bridge talk and them equally talking. I found out that it must have been on purpose. Since Mel Medarda is to everyone speaking down she talked to showing her power. Even if it's only the camera perspective it's Mel always being higher the the others. Even then Jayce. UNTIL the point she firstly met her mother. There was the first time she was talken down to because her mother had more power. I find their power telling and genral talkings with someone being on an equal level or higher very interesting.
Have I missed you doing a short analysis of the baptism scene vs the last supper scene with regard to the “death of powder”?
Oh. Interesting.
I saw it this way. He actually genuinely wanted to help Vi because of everything Vander had done for him and the city in general. He had every intention of giving them the drug and then leaving them be.
BUT then - while Caitlyn was grabbing the vial - he SAW it, FELT the drug again as it was brought closer to his face. That's why his eyes lit up for a second. This is when he no longer cared for anything but another dose. This is when he decided to rat them out.
I dunno. For some reason, I just want to believe there was still something good in him. That he at least had good intentions initially.
Great video as always!💚
I think he helped her because he owed Vander for saving him in episode 1. So essentially, he's paying back his debt so that he would no longer owe her once he betrays her or even so that he could betray her
Dude exhudes Twitch, but isnt changed yet. Or else he's a reference to Twitch.
Shimmer eyes, eyeing the rifle offered (likely modified to his crossbow), getting probably his last human contact with the hug, living in the sewers just crazed and withdrawing til the shimmer rains down from the fight above.
Suddenly addict has mutagen aplenty, a chemist lab, a sewer to mutate in, etc.
Twitchy!
I originally thought that he did want to help Vi but then seeing the shimmer in that medicine for Vi triggered him
Hmm idk about this one.. Why wouldn't Silco "pay for a corpse"? After all, he wants her dead. Maybe this is a misinterpretation from Huck but idk. I don't think the only reason he helped Vi was so that he could turn her in. There is an element of genuine care there, further enhanced by the Cait hug.
Also: when does he tell Silco that Vi is there? Does he do it after they got the cure or before? I like to believe that he does it afterwards so that there was at least a bit of doubt about whether he should do it or not, after his interaction with Cait. But that would mean Silco is a super speedy boi to get down there.. + the line "tell her I'm sorry, about everything". Does that mean he's sorry for having sold her out already or that he is about to sell her out?
Buuuuuut your take is more extreme and dramatic and i'm nitpicking at this point sooo yeah I like your take haha
I'm with you though
I wouldn't be surprised if the writers wrote "Drug addict 1" in the script and Fortiche were like "listen buddy. It takes a long time to design and rig these character models. Why don't we just use the character model for "guy at bar 1", name him Huck or something and then write the fact that he would've known Vander and Vi into his character."
I'm not saying this to cheapen Fortiche's achievements. I think the ability to manage their budget and to use decent writing, 2D backgrounds, recycling character models and other methods to mask the fact that they don't have a "Disney" budget is what made Arcane feel handcrafted and personal
purple coolaid is one hell of a drug
On my first viewing, I thought Huck tipped off Silco before confronting Caitlyn and him saving Vi was some kind of guilt-induced good deed.
Disagree actually, his body language doesn't sell an "I'm a mastermind who's gonna keep Vi alive so I can turn her in to Silco to get more shimmer", but rather an "I really want to help Vi, she's a good person" turned into "fuck I need shimmer" later on
Heartbreaking 💔 arc
Idk if this is just me or everybody already knows this already but I heard a lot of people say that Silco was a very Standard Cartoon Evil Villain at his first appearance and Vander is the obvious.
Idk if its intentional but prolly not but Its a fitting first impression/view cause we are seeing the world through the eyes of kids who lacks understanding of the world around them. We learn later that in some capacity Vander is more flawed than we thought, and in some way, if we overlook how wrong and extreme silco's methods are and how horrific of a leader silco would be, we could root for Silco's goal of uniting Zaun without the control of Piltover.
oh his name was huck, he's one of the few characters i never knew their names, so thanks lol
as soon as he was like "i cant come with you, i dont want Vi to see me like this" i was like, o caitlin you sweet summer child, you bring him with you or knock him out cuz hes turning on u right now
The fact that I didn't realize that he snitched
Well he is a rat after all
Huck played by Voice Actor Bill Lobley!
I dont think he helped her just to betray her he also did because as he said it was to repay a favor. If he only wanted shimmer and not to betray her knowing she could escape he would have said “i have captured vi for you, if you want her give me shimmer” dead or not she is worth something to silco. It gives silco peace of mind just being handed her corpse even if he doesnt know it is
Woah! I thought that guy was the skinny friend that Powder killed.
I believe there’s more going on here with Huck than what’s shown in Season 1. He didn’t complete the sentence “I just wanted to know what it’s like to make the other people afraid, instead of…” implying there’s more there than what’s shown. This video czcams.com/video/IA-v_LB3Qpc/video.html was posted by LoL CZcams account and it shows a strange guy going into The Last Drop, someone attacks him and shortly after Huck’s glasses are broken on the floor. I’m guessing it’s a flashback we’ll see in season 2 and an explanation for why Huck took shimmer in the first place. He’s probably dealing with abuse and needs shimmer to fight off whoever is taking advantage of him. Imo he genuinely did care about VI’s life because he really was grateful to Vander and it showed in his mannerisms. I’m not sure about Huck selling out Vi for shimmer because it would go against his appreciation to Vander. But I could be wrong.
Not if someone has mentioned this before but, what stopped Vander from providing Powder any gunpowder or chemtech? I mean if you look at Jinx's chomper bombs it looks like it uses a mixture of gunpowder chemtech and another form of liquid.
If we're going with the theory that Vander can see Powders more psychopathic side, that would explain why Vander never gave her a gun or anything that would make her bombs actually work.
Okay sure, an argument can be made that the undercity wasn't as developed when Vander was running the place but you're telling me that the Leader of the undercity, the guy who overseas, manages and protects the it wouldn't be able to find the materials and a proper place for Powder to express her mechanical prowess.
I think that if Vander believed and cultivated the goodness in Powder rather than fearing what she could have become, she wouldn't be so insecure at the time we saw her at Act 1.
I'm not even mad at him, he's destroyed and desperate
The way I see it, maybe there is another side to him we aren’t seeing. Notice when all the others were given viles from Silco, Huck was the only one who didn’t drink his right out. Maybe there is something else at play we aren’t aware of.
Stuff like this (WHEN she finds out)
Is going to slowly STRIP Caitlyn's sweet and caring nature away, she's too trusting and gullible. And once she finds out that THIS is the reality of the world she lives in she's NOT going to stay the same in season 2
He would have gotten his shimmer even if Vi was dead lol
man, i wish they stretched the episodes into more pieces to really make the story more impactful. the arcs were just too rushed, but i guess they had to run on a budget since the animation is god tier
Tbh I didn't even notice that this was the same guy.
I was today years old when I realised that it was Huck and not Mylo-
I can’t believe Thorgy Thor was in Arcane
Good points
Huck did help vi, but addiction won out the day
I personally think huck might be Mundo. Given his bruce banner out look.
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Oh my gooooooosh I KNEW I RECOGNIZED THAT GUY, but for the life of me I could not put my finger on it!
As a loyal Vi simp I didn't realize until now how deep was my hatred for Huck
I don't knok why I thought he was Mylo.. I am crying now
I never even noticed
My crack theory for season 2 is Huck is gonna kill Sevika & is gonna be promoted to important secondary character sorta like Sevika or Marcus.
I didnt relise that the helper was Huck when i watched the episode
If he wanted to, he could have attacked Caitlyn for just that drop of shimmer. I don't believe he went and got Silco, why would he listen to some addict anyway? They could make up any stories for shimmer. I think Silco found their location, and headed over there with a supply of shimmer to convince the addicts to help him. That, was when Huck gave the info about Vi being in that decrepit building. While we don't see what happens to him specifically, I assume he ran off with a bottle of shimmer, not attack Vi, as he'd simply feel too guilty, and he got to leave with it due to telling Silco where Vi was.
I was so disappointed in Huck. He was such a good dude back then. A shame that this is how the real world really is.
I mean was it really all that shocking if you ever dealt with a coward you know they have no such thing as too low.